The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...

An ‘extremely stripped supernova’ confirms the existence of a key feature of physicists’ models of how stars produce the ...

Astrophysics combines physics and astronomy to explain everything from the smallest particles to the largest galaxy clusters.

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.